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What if I told you the White House was bugged? What if @realDonaldTrump publicized it 15 months ago? What if Mueller is investigating those who bugged the White House? Why are people still ignoring it! #Spygate #MuellerInvestigation

@realDonaldTrump 2) I'm going to lead you through several incidents that show how serious the misconduct of our senior intelligence community leaders were. You will see the timelines in an entirely new light. You'll see the #WhiteHats for who they really are.

@realDonaldTrump 3) On 5/8/17 President Trump directed Deputy Attorney General to draft a letter because he was firing FBI Director James Comey. Rosenstein said the discussion started in one of his first meetings with Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the Winter. npr.org/2017/05/19/529…

@realDonaldTrump 4) It was also revealed that @Comey had requested additional resources to run the Russia investigation. But did not notify FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about the additional resources needed for the counterintelligence case. This probably played into the decision to fire him.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 5) So after telling RR to write the memo to fire Comey what does Trump do? As his day wraps up, he asks 3 TIme journalists to have a tour & join him for dinner. Knowing Time's publication schedule, the article will not be printed until a week after the firing.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 6) What seemed to the reporters like an impromptu tour & conversation was a carefully honed series of leaks & drops to put things on the record before the firing of James Comey & the appointment of James Mueller as Special Counsel. time.com/donald-trump-a…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 7) So what did President Trump want to talk about? Spygate! In details that allow any inquisitive journalist to connect the dots. He said so much that night, but it is only the beginning! The first reveal of the proof to back up his tweets about being wiretapped & so much more.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 8) So where does the tour start? The President's Private Dining Room, why is it so interesting? The President has just remodeled it. And the reporters are right about one thing, he has a story to tell them!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 9) The President has just had his private dining room remodeled. Redid the walls & the molding, added a large TV to the room so he can watch the news! But that's only the hook, he has so much more to tell them.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 10) He starts using the TV to show them recorded highlights from Congressional hearings. Not just any hearings of course, but #TrumpRussiaCollusionHearings First playing a clip of ODNI James Clapper stating their is no evidence of collusion. But this is just getting started.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey 11) Trump was like a coach using game film to plot out his next weeks moves & doesn't mention the FBI's investigation of him. Well not yet anyway! I wonder if the reporters @Time have figured out how important their interview really was.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME 12) So then he moves onto a clip of Clapper & @SallyQYates admitting that they viewed unmasked intelligence of Trump officials. Even unmasked a few himself says Clapper!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates 13) Then he goes for the kill, telling the reporters to not put wiretapping in quotes because "they surveilled me". They think that he is just still talking about surveillance before he became President. They were wrong!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates 14) The reporters then discuss how President Trump is frustrated that reporters won't cover the stories he wants covered. Never realizing that he was baiting them into covering this story, even though they never connected the dots he gave them.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates 15) In fact, he was getting them to cover the wiretapping story as Comey's termination approached. Even if they covered it just to claim Trump was wrong based on the testimony of Comey. Never realizing he was talking to them because he already had the vindication.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates 16) Now remember, Trump told them all this after he had decided to fire Comey the next day & was getting all on the record to be published later. To explain why he fired James Comey. Regardless of what Sally Yates would say the next day. He'd win by using Twitter!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates 17) He turns the discussion back to the surveillance, not in the past tense but in the present. Making the staff joke when he says the White House Comms people can't get the surveillance out. Then says he knows where the leaks are coming from.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates 18) The President gave Michael Scherer & @ZekeJMiller the scoop of a lifetime & they missed it. The White House leaks were coming from surveillance & that was why he remodeled the Dining Room & showed it to them. The night before he fired Comey!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller 19) The President then starts a tour of the private residence portion of the White House. The key feature he shows off? A supposedly encrypted secure telephone! Wonder why that features on a tour where he keeps talking about wiretapping?

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller 20) So then the action moves to the FBI on 5/9/17. Before @Comey is fired the FBI's INSD division comes to Andrew McCabe's office & interviews him about pre-election leaks.

According to the OIG report McCabe lacked candor during that interview! oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/o…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller 21) So Andrew McCabe had a chance to tell the truth to the FBI investigators & chose to lie to them. Hours before he was appointed to become the Acting Director of the FBI. How convenient, an opportunity to reveal you are crooked right before the give you free rein.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller 22) Andrew McCabe is given a chance to sign his statement from that interview on 5/12/17. He adds a paragraph denying the leak & he choses to not sign the document to verify that the notes are accurate. Strike 2! They tried until 6/23/17 to get McCabe to sign a witness statement

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller 23) So Acting Director of the FBI was lying to the FBI investigators, what else was he doing? Well he was in charge of the FBI, including the Trump Russia case! In fact, he counsel Lisa Page & @PeteStrzok are taking advantage of his status to try & get charges against somone.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok 24) So how do you prevent Andy McCabe & his dynamic duo from further influencing the Trump Russia investigation? Well you bring in a Special Counsel to take that case, but what if it is the FBI he is supposed to be investigating? #MuellerIsComing but not for who you expect!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok 25) So on May 16th, after AD McCabe's second strike, Robert Mueller, RR, & @POTUS have a 4 hour meeting in the WH. Reportedly for Mueller to interview with Trump to become Comey's replacement as the Director of the FBI. But a 10-year term limit made that illegal.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS 26) So what did they discuss? It seems clear they discussed Robert Mueller becoming Special Counsel as he was appointed the next day. There are so many ways that interview would cause a conflict of interest for Mueller, IF he is investigating Trump as Special Counsel.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS 27) SO it seems entirely likely that the meeting was about the real focus of the Mueller investigation. The real reason Trump was firing Comey, that surveillance that President tried to tell @MichaelSchere & @ZekeJMiller about the night before he fired Comey.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 28) On the same day Mueller, RR, & @realDonaldTrump were meeting, Comey leaked his memos of conversations to the NYT. The story showed at least one of the meetings was in the Private Dining Room the President had remodeled before he fired Comey.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 29) So what did the President say about that remodeling? That they found gold behind those walls. Just as he knew it would be there! So leaks of information discussed in that room lead the President to believe it was bugged & found what he expected! time.com/donald-trump-a…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 30) And how did the President react to Comey's memos! On Twitter of course! You mean like tapes from bugs in the room where they held the conversation! He knew, just like when he tweeted about the Obama Wiretaps!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 31) Think it's getting good yet? It's just getting started! #Spygate #Intelgate #Obamagate #WhitehouseBugsgate!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 32) I'll move forward to the next big explosion of activity! As the next 2 months mostly involve Mueller getting his team together, bumping out people assigned to it by Andrew McCabe, & ramping up to begin #MuellerTime.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 33) That begins with the raid on Paul Manafort on 7/26/17. Bad news for Trump right? Only if he was working with Manafort to collude but the results after that raid happen like lightning! And it wasn't aimed at Trump!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere 34) All this time the @JusticeOIG is investigating misconduct by the FBI. They have a meeting between IG Horowitz, RR & Mueller where the IG reveals the text messages of Page & Strzok. While many dismiss these, this meeting triggers an avalanche of activity, aimed at the FBI!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 35) Mueller leaves the meeting & sends FBI agents to arrest George Papadopoulos when he gets off an airplane, we only learned this week he had accepted a $10k bribe from an intelligence official linked to Israel & the US before he started that trip home.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 36) Mueller has the agents arrest Pdop without getting a warrant or taking other steps that might tip off people within the FBI or DOJ. That is extremely important in relation to the following steps. The kept him at the airport for 5-6 hours instead of FBI politico.com/story/2017/12/…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 37) Then they let him sweat it all night before releasing him around 9am the next morning. Possibly so that everyone would go into work that morning in DC unaware George Pdop had been arrested. Wonder who Mueller, Horowitz & Rosenstein might want to keep in the dark about that?

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 38) If you guessed Andy McCabe, you've read my earlier tweets! But on 7/28/17 the OIG showed up to do a recorded & under oath interview of Andrew McCabe about the pre-election leaks. They asked him about the Page/Strzok texts they had shown Mueller & RR the day before.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 39) McCabe lied to them in that interview according to the OIG. Attempting to throw Lisa Page under the bus for illegally leaking to reporters, ruining her career, for leaks he ordered her to make. #StrzokPage

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 40) Meanwhile things are getting interesting down at the White House too! Seems that WH Chief of Staff Reince Riebus is out & General Kelly is in! But why, oh why, could it be related to Pdop, McCabe, Strzok & the rest? Of course!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 41) So Riebus resigned on the 27th but it wasn't announced until after Pdops arrest & McCabe's interview with OIG. And then we get these bizarre stories, that start the new WH topic of the next two weeks. Bugs, lots of bugs, all over the White House there's bugs.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 42) The first bug story is about Riebus. It claimed Trump humiliated Riebus by making him squash a bug in the Oval Office. What kind of bug? They say a fly, but that doesn't seem likely given the White House response to these bugs.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 43) On 8/1/17, after having 3 days to 'remember' more details. Andrew McCabe calls the OIG & tells them he wasn't clear in his interview & they misunderstood his answers. He tells them more false stories that day too! oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/o…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 43) By pure coincidence, I'm sure, on 8/1/17 Christopher Wray is confirmed by the Senate as FBI Director meaning McCabe's time running the Bureau is at an end. He is sworn in the next day & Andrew McCabe resumes the duties of the Acting Director.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 44) Back at the White House, President Trump is beset with criticism as an 8/1/17 publication in claims he referred to the White House as a dump talking to members of his golf club in New Jersey. Was he claiming it was infested maybe? Wonder what kind of bugs it hosted?

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 45) On 8/2 Trump denies he said that statement but it causes another media storm for a few days. Is this how you get your message out without the media filtering it. Absolutely, as I'm sure we'll learn.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 46) On 8/3 the White House announces (with no prior warning) that the entire White House staff will be moving out of the building on 8/4 for a 17 day remodeling project while the President takes a working vacation at his golf course in NJ. Why the remodel? Bugs!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 47) Story after story in the press, it's mostly about those bugs, like the fly Riebus had to squash in the Oval Office. A former official even joked that remodeling was only leaks they could fix! politico.com/story/2017/08/…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 48) Coincidentally the President is relocating to the same property he moved his team into during the transition. A property under the control of his security personnel. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 49) The Trump team also made an unannounced move to that site in November of 2016. A move made immediately after Admiral Mike Rogers of NSA, took leave so he was off duty, traveled to Trump Tower & briefed the President Elect's team. Allegedly to warn them the tower was bugged.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG 50) You can read more about the story of Admiral Rogers as it was documented by @TheLastRefuge2! theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/05/ope…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 51) So they move all of the furniture out of the White House, on 8/4/17 & conduct business from NY & the adjoining office buildings in DC. Seems excessive, for a simple remodeling. It was & one of the stories gave us another big clue these were no ordinary bugs.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 52) Going back to the article coinciding with Comey's firing, they even had to shut down the Situation Room for 2 weeks to refurbish the conference table in the room. Anyone believing you close the nerve center of the WH to work on the table?

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 53) So we have this unannounced closing of the White House with no warning before the night of 8/2/17. What also happened on that day? If you said DAG Rosenstein gave written instructions on his jurisdiction to SC Mueller then you are correct. cnn.com/2018/04/03/pol…

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 54) Prior to that still classified & redacted memo, RR has stated that he gave verbal instruction & a generic authorization to Mueller to define his assignment as Special Counsel. Why? Why not put in writing in May what Mueller's investigating?

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 55) Well the Special Counsel policies require the AG or Acting AG in this case to notify the Director of the FBI of the jurisdiction of the SC so the FBI can assist them properly.

What if the Acting Director of the FBI was a target of the Special Counsel's investigation?

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 56) The Acting Director who opened & closed his term by lying to FBI & DOJ investigators! I guess you would wait until a new FBI Director is sworn in & then produce the written documentation of the SC's authority.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 57) So the same day AD Andy McCabe loses authority as Acting Director, the DAG produces a classified memo & provides it to Mueller & Director Wray. The same day the White House is complaining of an infestation of bugs & preparing to announce a remodeling to fix the problem.

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 58) Enough for this thread, I hope we have explored some interesting facts. I hope my fellow sleuths are connecting the dots I found to those they were already working on! End!

@realDonaldTrump @Comey @TIME @SallyQYates @ZekeJMiller @petestrzok @POTUS @MichaelsChere @JusticeOIG @TheLastRefuge2 One more little tidbit. Someone posted this little gem on the day the White House announced the remodeling project. What an interesting theory so quick on the heels of news! intellihub.com/trump-white-ho…

This thread keeps getting cut of at #43. the the rest of the thread is available on this threadreader link. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1033084…

Individually they continue here, I have two posts numbered 43. May have typoed it & messed up my own thread!

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